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Table 1 Descriptive statistics for the alexithymia measures

From: Alexithymia and automatic processing of facial emotions: behavioral and neural findings

Scale

Mean

SD

Range

Mean item scorea

TAS-20 total

43.20

10.70

22–71

2.16

TAS-DIF

12.49

4.29

7–25

1.78

TAS-DDF

12.45

4.59

5–24

2.49

TAS-EOT

18.27

4.59

10–31

2.28

BVAQ total

106.44

24.01

65–166

2.66

Identifying

18.76

5.73

8–36

2.34

Verbalizing

22.94

7.82

9–39

2.87

Analyzing

18.76

6.55

9–32

2.34

Emotionalizing

20.16

6.32

11–35

2.52

Fantasizing

25.84

7.29

13–37

3.23

TSIA total

16.59

9.82

2–37

0.69

TSIA-DIF

1.35

2.05

0–8

0.22

TSIA-DDF

2.73

3.37

0–11

0.46

TSIA-EOT

5.80

3.38

0–12

0.97

TSIA-IMP

6.71

2.92

1–11

1.12

  1. aRating scale from 1 to 5 for the TAS-20 and BVAQ and from 0 to 2 for the TSIA
  2. N = 49. TAS-20 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale, DIF difficulties identifying feelings, DDF difficulties describing feelings, EOT externally oriented thinking, BVAQ Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire, TSIA Toronto Structured Interview for Alexithymia, IMP imaginal processes